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In the 1989 movie “Say anything”, a famous scene features John Cusack holding aloft a ghettoblaster whilst standing below his girlfriend’s bedroom window. What song is he playing?
In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel
Born in 1948, what UK TV face of the 1980s had the birth name “Florence Winsome Leighton”?
Wincey Willis
Although he won the French Open doubles title in 1948, which Swedish Tennis player is probably better remembered for being Bjorn Borg’s trainer? Initials L.B. (Lima Bravo) but only the surname required
Lennart BERGELIN
The Land Rover name was created in 1948 by the Rover Company for a utilitarian 4 Wheel Drive off-road vehicle. Which Land Rover model was Europe’s best selling 4x4 for five years in a row, after its market introduction in 1997?
Freelander
Erling Haaland was named in the 2023 English Premier League team of the year. In which city was he born?
Leeds
Who wrote The Worst Witch featuring Mildred Hubble?
Jill Murphy
First name Eileen, what actress played the role of Emily Bishop in Coronation Street for 55 years right up to 2016?
Eileen Derbyshire
Hard A: Tools that replace spoken voice or normal writing, to aid communication for people with impairments such as cerebral palsy or motor neurone disease, is known as AAC. What does the first A stand for in “A———– and Alternative Communication”?
Augmentative
Easy A: Bucks Fizz and Brotherhood of Man are two groups that start with the letter B that won the Eurovison Song Contest for the United Kingdom. Name any of the other four groups that start with a B that represented the UK, but were not as lucky. (No extra points for naming more than one, but feel free to show off).
Bardo ¦ Blue ¦ Belle and the Devotions ¦ Black Lace
Easy C: HRT doesn’t only stand for Hormone Replacement Therapy but is also the national broadcaster of which country?
Croatia
Hard E: And while we’re on flags, this is the flag of the Basque Country. But what do Basque people call their homeland?
Euskadi (Euskara is their language)
Hard F: What do we call this type of metalwork, generally featuring silver and gold threads and beads to create intricate jewellery?
Filigree
Easy G: I hope you are enjoying this quiz. In linguistics, what term would we use to describe the suffix “-ing” in “enjoying”?
Gerund
Hard H: The cities of Frankfurt and Wiesbaden are found in which German state?
Hesse
Hard I: So, if I am flying to an airport with the IATA code ORK, in which country would I be landing?
Ireland (CORK)
Hard J: What is the name of this 22 year old Indian cricketer, who aged 17 became the youngest cricketer ever to score a List A double century and has been ripping up the record books ever since?
Yashasvi JAISWAL
Hard K: What word is used for the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo? (Indonesians themselves refer to the entire island with this name.)
Kalimantan
Hard M: This is the Croatian island of Rab. What was the name of the stonemason who fled this island after being persecuted by Emperor Diocietan because of his Christian beliefs, and set up a new colony elsewhere, in 301 AD, on top of a mountain, to get away from an insane woman who thought he was her husband? He was later canonised, and his Saints Day is celebrated on 3 September.
Marinus / Marino
Hard N: The name, please, of this famous French-born American writer of erotica, essayist, and one-time lover of Henry Miller? She also had, it appears, an incestuous relationship (in adulthood) with her father, Cuban pianist father Joaquín, which she hinted at in some of her psychoanalytical essays.
Anais NIN
Easy P: What term is occasionally given in the US to an imaginary town where mediocrity and incompetence reign supreme? It was also the title of Fatboy Slim’s fourth and final album.
Palookaville
Hard P: What is the name of the island in Guananabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, home to twenty baobab trees and a car-free zone. A current West Ham footballer was brought up there and turned the island’s name into his nickname.
Paqueta
Hard Q: Queretaro is one of the states of Mexico. But what is the only other Mexican state to start with the letter Q? Two-word answer please.
Quintana Roo (home of Cancun)
Easy R: What name is given in football (soccer) to the technique whereby the kicking leg is crossed behind the back of the standing leg? It in turn has given its name to a dance step in tango.
Rabona
Hard T: What name (beginning with T, of course) do we give someone who partakes in Parkour?
Traceur / Traceuse
Hard R: Spain recently had a TV show to determine, via a lengthy televised public poll, who was the Greatest Spaniard. Surprisingly beating the likes of bookies’ favourites Goya, Cervantes and Queen Isabel I of Castile, who turned out to be the winner? He is known as the father of modern neuroscience, and in 1906 was the first person of Spanish origin to win a scientific Nobel Prize. Both surnames, please.
Ramon y Cajal
Easy U: Known by fans as simply “La U” (the U), this is the badge of one of Chile’s most successful fooball clubs, and it even won the Copa Sudamericana in 2011. But what does the U stand for?
Universidad
Hard U: For reasons unknown, this Mr Man character was renamed as Mr Snooty in 2021. However, when he first appeared in 1972 as the eleventh character in the Mr Men series, he had a different name (and in fact was and, I guess, still is the only Mr Man starting with the letter U). What was his name?
Mr Uppity
Hard V: Co-winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, what is the name of this marvellous movie by Spanish director Luis Buñuel, about a nun decides to leave the order after coming into some money?
Viridiana
Easy W: What is the name of this beautiful climbing plant? (Though, be careful not to eat the seeds, which can be highly toxic!)
Wisteria
Hard W: What term is given to when journalists give undeserved credibility to a claim they have not factchecked well enough, and which is then reported on again by other journalists, similar to circular reporting? The term comes from chapter 3 of Winnie-the-Pooh, in which Pooh and Piglet walk in circles hunting a creature but are in fact just following their own footsteps.
Woozle Effect
East X: What is the name of the polysaccharide used in food manufacture as a thickening agent as well as a stabiliser to stop ingredients from separating?
Xanthum Gum
Hard Z: Ebola, Smallpox and Rabies are just three of the many diseases that can spread from animals to human. What term do we give such a disease?
Zoonosis / Zoonotic disease
Which author penned 13 Reasons Why?
Jay Asher
First four Series of Unfortunate Events ONLY CONNECT
Bad Beginning
Reptile Room
Wide Window
Miserable Mill
Percy Jackson book series first four ONLY CONNECT
The Lightning Thief
The Sea of Monsters
The Titan’s Curse
The Battle of the Labyrinth
Alex Rider book series first four ONLY CONNECT
Stormbreaker
Point Blanc
Skeleton Key
Eagle Strike
First four David Walliams novels in order ONLY CONNECT
The Boy in the Dress
Mr Stink
Billionaire Boy
Gangsta Granny
A book by former British Prime minister, Theresa May published in 2023. The book explores how power is abused by public institutions and those who run them.
The Abuse of Power
Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses series first four ONLY CONNECT
Noughts & Crosses
Knife Edge
Checkmate
Double Cross
1898 novel written by English writer J. Meade Falkner. The plot is an adventure tale of smuggling, treasure, and shipwreck set in 18th-century England.
Moonfleet
“For your love” and “Heart full of soul” were both 1960s hit for which band?
Yardbirds
“How many tears” and “Take good care of my baby” were 1960s top ten hits for what singer?
Bobby Vee
“I’m gonna make you love me” and “Get ready” were 1960s Top Ten hits for which R&B vocal group?
The Temptations
“I close my eyes and count to ten” and “In the middle of nowhere” were 1960s top ten hits for which singer?
Dusty Springfield
“Sha la la la lee” and “Lazy Sunday” were 1960s top ten hits for which London-based quartet?
Small Faces
“Message understood” and “Monsieur Dupont” were 1960s hits for which female singer?
Sandie Shaw
“Little Devil” and “Happy birthday sweet sixteen” were 1960s top ten hits for which singer?
Neil Sedaka
“Daydream” and “Summer in the city” were 1960s top ten hits for which US/ Canadian group?
Lovin’ Spoonful
“This old heart of mine” and “Behind a painted smile” were 1960s top ten hits for which US group?
The Isley Brothers
Regarded as one of the last teen idols in Britain before The Beatles came along, which man had 1960s top ten hits with “I don’t know why” and “Get lost”?
Eden Kane
Brian Epstein was their manager when which band scored 1960s top ten hits with “Do you want to know a secret” and “I’ll keep you satisfied”?
Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas
Which woman, one of the biggest selling teenagers in the early years of Rock and Roll, scored 1960s top ten hits with “Sweet nothings” and “Speak to me pretty”?
Brenda Lee
“Game of love” and “Groovy kind of love” were 1960s top ten hits for which UK group?
The Mindbenders
“Game of love” and “Groovy kind of love” were 1960s top ten hits for which UK group?
Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders
“A little bit me a little bit you” and “Alternate title” are lesser known 1960s top ten hits by which band?
The Monkees
“Love is like a violin” (his signature song) and “Promises” were 1960s top ten hits for which man?
Ken Dodd
Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what two-word term is defined as “a person who works remotely while traveling for leisure, especially when having no fixed, permanent address”?
Digital Nomad
Giancarlo Esposito once said of his Breaking Bad character Gustavo Fring: “Gus is the coolest cucumber that ever walked the Earth. I think about Eddie Olmos way back in BLANK BLANK”. The name of what two-word TV show fills the blanks? It ran from 1984 to 1989
Miami Vice
Born in Wales in 1841, which well known figure of Victorian times was originally named John Rowlands? As a boy this person entered the workhouse around the age of five but his fortunes turned when he was eventually adopted by a wealthy trader
Henry Morton Stanley
In which sport, played with paddles, must players allow both the service and the return of service to bounce before returning? Another rule is that players cannot volley in the part of the court known as the kitchen
Pickleball
Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what 8-letter word is defined as “an athlete, usually a pitcher or boxer, who is right-handed or competes as a right-hander”?
Northpaw
Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what 7-letter word beginning with “C” is “the false belief that one can enjoy the benefits of two choices that are in fact mutually exclusive, or have it both ways”?
Cakeism
The small antechamber off the Sistine Chapel where a newly elected pope changes into his papal cassock for the first time is known as the “Room of” what? This 5-letter word was also the name of the biggest selling song of 1965 in the UK
Room of TEARS
What word is missing from the name of this National Book critics award for fiction nominee: “Mrs BLANK Bliss” by Stanley Elkin? This 3-letter word wa also the first name of Postman Pat’s handyman friend
Ted
In the Catholic Church, what name is given to the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance?
Saint LONGINUS
Which country has only two land borders - one with Guatemala and one with Honduras?
El Salvador
The actress Krysten Ritter, who played Jesse Pinkman’s apartment manager and girlfriend in Breaking Bad, is an avid fan of which hobby? The husband of Dustin Lance Black has probably been the highest profile fan of this hobby in recent years
Knitting
The Men’s national team from which country reached the Olympic volleyball gold medal match on every occasion from 2004 to 2016?
Brazil
Named after a New Testament character, in the Catholic Church what word refers to the act of selling church offices and roles or sacred things?
Simony
What ball game is the national sport of Malaysia? Syahir Rodsi is considered one of the best players ever
Sepak Takraw
What man, the lead singer of Foreigner, recorded “Lost in the Shadows” for the soundtrack of “The Lost Boys”?
Lou Gramm
Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what 12-letter word is defined as “a marketing technique involving intentional homoeroticism or suggestions of LGBTQ+ themes intended to draw in an LGBTQ+ audience”?
Queerbaiting
How high is the goal ring in the game of Netball?
10 foot
Which country has only two land borders - one with Guinea and one with Senegal?
Guinea Bissau
Joel Pott, who co-wrote both ‘Budapest’ and ‘Shotgun’ with George Ezra, was the lead singer of which band, whose biggest UK hit was the 2005 single ‘Wires’?
Athlete
What does it mean if the Pope appoints a Cardinal “in pectore”?
Something done in secret
Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what “P” is “a person who gains a large following on social media by posting entertaining images or videos of their cat, dog, or other animal”?
Petfluencer
What word is missing from the name of this National Book critics award for fiction nominee: “BLANK dies” by Paul Murray? A TV character with this name appeared in a show which was filmed at Waratah National Park in the 1960s
Skippy
The first international game of Handball was played in 1925 between Belgium and which other country? his country won the 2023 Men’s Basketball World Cup
Germany
What was the name of Ernest Shackleton’s ship which was re-discovered at the bottom of the Weddell sea in 2022? 107 years after it sank it is said to be in “a brilliant state of preservation”
Endurance
Bob Odenkirk was Saul Goodman, a crooked strip mall lawyer in Breaking Bad. Odenkirk drew inspiration for Goodman from which film producer, the one-time head of Paramount and husband of Ali McGraw?
Bob Evans
What name is given to the axe blade topped with a spike mounted on a long shaft traditionally associated with the Swiss Guard?
Halberd
Which country has only tow land borders - one with Cameroon and one with Gabon?
Equatorial Guinea
Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what 11-letter adjective is defined as “becoming more robust when exposed to stressors, uncertainty, or risk”? It is derived from the name of a Nassim Nicholas Taleb book
Antifragile
Which country has only three land borders, those being Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia?
Malawi
In the name of the popular Dutch sport of Korfball, what does the word “Korf” mean?
Basket
What word is missing from the name of this National Book critics award for fiction nominee: “The BLANK of Love and Techno” by Anthony Marra? This 4-letter word is associated with Simeon I of Bulgaria
Tsar
Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what 4-letter word is “a coordinated display, including large banners, flags, and sometimes signs or cards, executed cooperatively or performed in unison by the most fervent supporters and ultra fans in a stadium”?
Tifo
Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what 9-letter word is defined as “a person who lives with another in a life partnership, sometimes engaged with no planned wedding date, sometimes with no intention of ever marrying”?
Nearlywed
What word is missing from the name of this National Book critics award for fiction nominee: “Billy BLANK” by E.L. Doctorow? This is also the name of a large town in West Lothian, the birthplace of Sir James Young Simpson
Billy BATHGATE
In 1970 Pope Paul VI changed the rules for electing new popes so that only Cardinals under what age were allowed to vote?
80
The word “conclave” comes from the Latin “Cum clavus” which means “with a” what? The comedian who play’s Alan Partridge’s sidekick Simon might have an interest in these things
Key
What is the name of the traditional three-peaked cap worn by Christian clergy, especially in the Roman Catholic church?
Biretta
Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what 11-letter word is defined as “an instance or practice of acknowledging and promoting the civil liberties of the LGBTQ+ community, but superficially, as a ploy to divert attention from allegiances and activities that are in fact hostile to such liberties”?
Pinkwashing
In which game, combining the gameplay of golf and football, do players kick a six inch rubber ball, with the aim of getting it into a bowl in the smallest number of shots?
Codeball (Footgolf uses a football)
As the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign heated up Nigel Farage came to be more associated with the Leave.EU team. That campaign was co founded by which Bristol based businessman and UKIP donor?
Arron Banks
Oscar Winners: Billy Eilish recently became the youngest person to win two Oscars for Best Original Song, but she’s not the first female to sing two winning tunes. One example was in 1980 and 1983. But who sung the winning songs in those years?
Irene Cara
Featured Artists: Who was the featured vocalist on Artful Dodger’s Re-Rewind follow up track Movin’ Too Fast?
Romina Johnson
Trivia: Thesaurus alert! Aqua, R Kelly, Cher and Johnny Hates Jazz have all composed canticles of regret regarding transtemporal manipulation. What is the recurring refrain in their compositions?
They all wanted to Turn Back Time
Trivia: One Hit Wonder Kon Kan used lots of samples, mostly Lynn Anderson’s song Rose Garden in their hit from 1988. Can you name that hit?
I Beg Your Pardon
The Wanted song “Walks like ______” whcih singer?
Rihanna
Nautical Theme: What was the name of the Human League comeback album that contained the hits Tell Me When in 1994 and One Man In My Heart in 1995?
Octopus
Nautical Theme: What is the name of the Limp Bizkit album that contains the huge #1 hit single Rollin’?
Chocolate Starfish and Hotdog Flavoured Water
Nautical Theme: What song did Aaliyah release as follow up her UK number 1 More Than A Woman?
Rock the Boat
Nautical Theme: What is the name of Duffy’s album that spawned the songs Mercy and Warwick Avenue?
Rockferry
Nautical Theme: Cher’s number 1 The Shoop Shoop Song came from which one of her films, also starring Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci?
Mermaids
Nautical Theme: Which David Gray song ends with him whistling the chorus?
Sail Away
Featured Artists: This is Song For Mutya, credited to Mutya Buena of Sugababes fame, but who are the featured dance act on the track?
Groove Armada
A pioneering photographer (pictured) of the 19th Century, known for her portraits of Sir John Herschel and Charles Darwin. She was born in Calcutta in 1815 to well-to-do parents, her father an official of the East India Company and her mother descended from French aristocracy.
Julia Margaret Cameron
What variety of thick-skinned oranges are characterized by growth of a second fruit at the apex, giving them the appearance of a certain part of human anatomy?
Navel
Chabbal Waddi is the highest point in which African Country at 2419m? Near this country’s border with Cameroon, it is part of the Bamenda-Alantika-Mandara mountain chain.
Nigeria
What word describes
1) An English Musician and record producer of Madonna’s Ray of Light
2) The socket which houses the eyeball
3) A brand of sugar free chewing gum produced by Wrigleys
Orbit (William is the producer)
Known for its romantic florally embossed gowns which British fashion house was opened in 2005 by a Canadian-born former intern of Vivienne Westwood with the surname Moralıoğlu? It collaborated with H&M on a 2017 flowery, lace-rich collection, and Lily James wore this label to the 2024 Met Ball.
Erdem
Which Soviet Olympic gymnast won 14 individual Olympic medals and 4 team medals between 1956 and 1964? She is the only gymnast to hold 9 Olympic gold medals.
Larisa LATYNINA
What mythological figure links
1) A choreographic work of George Balanchine first performed to Stravinsky in 1929, featuring the protagonist (Pictured in a modern production) and three Muses.
2)A NASA space programme whose last flight was in December 1972?
Apollo
In which religion is the Chinvat bridge, guarded by two four-eyed dogs, the sifting bridge that all souls must cross upon death? This religion’s funeral rites are now endangered by declining vulture populations in India, Iran and Pakistan.
Zoroastrianism
Son of Aethelred the Unready and his first wife, Aelgifu of York, who was King of England between 23rd April and 30 November 1016? He led the English at the battle of Assandun to defeat against the Danish Army of Canute the Great in October 1016, a month before his death, possibly on the privy, though this disputed.
Edmund Ironside accept Edmund II
Concerning a Druid priestess of the Gauls who falls for a Roman soldier, which 1831 Opera by Vincenzo Bellini features the famous Bel Canto aria and prayer Casta Diva? The title role was performed 89 times by Maria Callas from 1948.
Norma
Guinean recording artist Mory Kante released which 1988 world music international smash hit written in Mandinka, remixed into an “Afro Acid Mix” specially for the UK?
Ye ke Ye ke
Which captain of the Washington Capitals Ice Hockey team is known as “the Great Eight” in reference to his jersey number? He is second to only Wayne Gretzky for all-time goal scoring.
Ovechkin (Alexander Mikhailovich)
An Australian surfer, the winner of 8 women’s WSL World Tour World Championship titles between 2007 and 2022
Stephanie Gilmore
Discovered on Instagram by make-up queen Pat McGrath, which British-born American “plus-size” model, Model of the Year in 2023, made her breakthrough in the Autumn /Winter 2020 season, walking for Fendi and Alexander McQueen?
Elsesser (Paloma)
What surname links
1) An Indian-American neuroscientist known for his creation of the mirror box to treat phantom limb pain
2) an Indian physicist who devised a plot (pictured) of energetically permissable peptide configurations which predicts alpha helices and beta sheets. He proposed the triple helical model for the structure of collagen.
Ramachandran (Vilayanur Subramanian (VS) and Gopalasamudram Narayanan (GN))
Which tennis star caused controversy with her Teddy Tinling-designed tennis outfit at Wimbledon 1949, as the short skirt of the dress exposed her frilly lace knickers? Accused of “bringing vulgarity and sin into tennis” by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet club, her attire sparked a debate in Parliament.
Gussie MORAN
What links
1) a large Berber ethnic group that inhabit the Sahara in an area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso
2) A luxury mid-size SUV model (pictured) launched by Volkswagen in 2002.
Tuareg
In which Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera of 1882 has the title character commited the sin of marrying a mortal, eventually revealed to be the Lord Chancellor of the House of Lords, leading to her banishment from Fairyland?
Iolanthe
Which small inland sea of Turkey connects the Aegean Sea to the Black Sea via the Dardanelles and Bosporus straits?
Marmara
First released in 2019 and a spin-off of the Titanfall series, which battle royale-hero shooter video game features the characters Bangalore, Bloodhound, Caustic, Mirage and Wraith?
Apex Legends
Brunette Coleman was a pseudonym used by which British poet and librarian, as a cover for writing the novella Trouble at Willow Gables, featuring Hillary Russell who seduces the school cricket captain Mary Beech? He turned down the position of Poet Laureate in 1984 following Sir John Betjeman’s death.
Philip Larkin
The centre of an Umbrian DOC known for its white wines made of Grechetto and Trebbiano grapes, which Italian commune, the site of the historic well the Pozzo di San Patrizio, was the refuge of Pope Clement VII during the 1527 sack of Rome?
Orvieto
A site of stress fractures in the foot, which bone, forming part of the longitudinal and transverse arches of the foot, articulates with the talus, the cuboid and the three cuneiform bones? Its Latin name derives from its resemblance to a small ship
Navicular
From a French verb meaning “to lean”, what name describes a high arabesque in ballet in which the working leg is extended upwards towards a standing split (Picture)?
Penche
Which 1908 German Nobel Prize-winning Physician and immunologist discovered arsphenamine (Salvarsan), which became the first effective treatment for Syphilis? He gives his name to a tick-borne Rickettsial disease-causing bacterium.
Paul Ehrlich
Which American athlete nicknamed “The Black Gazelle”, won 1960 Summer Olympic Gold medals in Rome in the women’s 100m, 200m and 4x100m sprint relay?
Wilma Rudolph
A professor of Economics, who was the first and only female prime minister of Turkey from 1993-1996 as leader of the True Path Party?
Tansu Çiller
Which French poet (1821-1867) and author of Les Fleurs du Mal was the first to translate the works of Edgar Allan Poe for a French audience?
Charles Baudelaire
What nine letter term describes
1) A group of amphibian embryo cells which are responsible for the induction of neural tissues, for which German embryologist Hilde Mangold won her PhD supervisor Hans Spemann the 1935 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine.
2) A “Personal” time management product sold by Filofax.
Organiser
Which archipelago in the Bay of Bengal, a union territory of India, has its capital at Port Blair?
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Which brand of dental local anaesthetic was the Eels using “for the soul” in their 1996 single from the debut album Beautiful Freak? I will also accept the generic name
Novocaine
Equipped with hyperextensible killing claws and feathers, which winged, sharp toothed, lizard-tailed dinosaur of the late Jurassic period was first discovered near Solfhofen in Germany in the early 1860’s?
Archaeopteryx
Used by Painters such as Frank Auerbach and Chaim Soutine (picture), which artistic technique involves thick, undiluted paint, applied so it stands out from the canvas to create texture?
Impasto
What invertebrate phylum includes starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers?
Echinodermata
Playing opposite Humphrey Bogart, which Italian model and actress made her breakthrough appearance in John Huston’s Beat the Devil in 1953? Once dubbed The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, in her second career as a photojournalist she got exclusive access to Fidel Castro for 12 days for a 1974 interview.
Gina Lollobrigida
An organic chemist who revolutionised soap and candle manufacture through his analysis of long chain fatty acids, which French polymath (1786-1889 yes thats correct!) showed that diabetic individuals secreted glucose in their urine, but also laid the foundations for Neo-impressionism and Orphism with his work on colour theory, as head of the Gobelin dye factory, in The Laws of Contrast of Colour
Michel Chevreul
Which English philosopher and student of Ludwig Wittgenstein introduced the term consequentiality in her 1958 article Modern Moral Philosophy? Her 1957 work Intention focused on the character of human action and will.
Elizabeth Anscombe
Nicknamed “the Monster”, which Japanese Professional Boxer was the undisputed bantamweight World champion between 2019 and 2023 but has also been been a Champion at super bantamweight and both light flyweight and super flyweight? He retained his super bantamweight titles on 6th May 2024 when he beat Luis Nery convincingly.
Naoya INOUE
Whilst her first marriage to Henry V’s brother allied her to the House of Lancaster, which Luxembourg Princess later married Richard Woodville, a Yorkist convert, and bore Elizabeth, the future Queen Consort of Edward IV? The Lady of the Rivers, a 2011 historical novel by the author in 2e, is narrated by this highly influential woman, who was maliciously accused of Witchcraft by Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, but saved by her Royal connections.
Jacquetta of Luxembourg
Which US President signed the Pendleton Civil Service reform act into law in 1883, which required civil servants to be selected, based on merit, through an examination?
Chester A Arthur
One of the “Harvard Computers” aka “Edward Pickering’s Harem”, which astronomer determined the orbit of the binary star Zeta Ursae Majoris (Mizar A) only to be uncredited by Pickering in 1889 for both this and her own discovery of another binary star Beta Aurigae (Menkalinan)? She was awarded the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy in 1943 for her contributions to star classification lauded and utilised by Ejnar Hertzsprung
Antonia Maury
With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures and spectral types. She was nearly deaf throughout her career after 1893, as a result of scarlet fever. She was a suffragist and a member of the National Women’s Party.
Annie Jump CANNON
Paulina Poriskova, Elizabeth Hurley and Manushi Chhillar are or have been faces of which beauty brand whose classic products include the perfumes White Linen, Beautiful and Cinnabar?
Estee Lauder
Bordering Tibet in the North and Northeast, Bhutan to the East and Nepal to the west, which Northeast Indian state has Gangtok, a popular Buddhist pilgrimage site, as its State Capital?
Sikkim
Following a successful FA-cup winning stint at Arsenal, which Irish former footballer, coach and pundit had a successful stint at Juventus from 1980-82, winning two Serie A titles? Having turned down a chance to meet Luciano Pavarotti at a Juventus reception, he later met him as manager of Celtic and conceded that Pavarotti “knew his football”.
Liam Brady
What name is given to a a hair dyeing technique where the hair is darker from roots to midshaft, and then lighter from the midshaft to the ends? This word is also the name of a trick-taking 17th century card game that originated in Spain.
Ombre
In Greek mythology, who was the horrid sister of Stheno and Euryale?
Medusa
What term is used for a naturally magnetized piece of the mineral magnetite?
Lodestone
Which car company produced a compact roadster called the SLC-Class?
Mercedes Benz
What was the only thing left after the battle of the Kilkenny Cats?
Their Tails
Who wrote the novel Seven Keys to Baldpate in 1913, 12 years before he introduced Charlie Chan in the 1925 novel The House Without a Key?
Earl Derr BIGGERS
British track and field athlete Mary Rand won Olympic gold in 1964 in which event while breaking the world record?
Long jump
Elizabeth I was excommunicated by which pope in the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis?
Pope Pius V
Expo ’98 was the World’s Fair held in which European capital city?
Lisbon
Which former friend of Falstaff is hanged in Shakespeare’s Henry V for looting from a church?
Bardolph
Which filmmaker was sued in 1936 for plagiarizing Rene Clair’s 1931 film comedy A nous la liberte?
Charlie Chaplin
Which 10-year-old boy leads the crew of cartoon search and rescue dogs called the PAW Patrol?
Ryder
Which horse was the winner in a 3-horse photo finish at the 2024 Kentucky Derby?
Mystik Dan
What is the unit of dynamic viscosity used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units?
Poise
On April Fools Day in 2024, sriracha chili sauce maker Lee Kum Kee announced which new product containing sriracha?
Toothpaste
What man has been inaugurated as just the fourth prime minister of Singapore since the country’s independence in 1965?
Lawrence Wong
Four Prime Ministers of Singapore in 2024 ONLY CONNECT
LEE Kuan Yew
GOH Chok Tong
LEE Hsien Loong
Lawrence WONG
OpenAI has announced its new ChatGPT model, GPT-4o. What does the “o” stand for?
OMNI
Filipino demonstrators protested over what disputed atoll against dozens of Chinese coast guard and militia ships guarding the area? It is known as Minzhu Jiao (“Democracy Reef”) in Mandarin and Panatag Shoal (“Serene Sandback”) in Filipino.
SCARBOROUGH SHOAL
President Salome Zurabishvili of Georgia has vetoed what controversial law that would require NGOs and media groups that receive 20% of their funding from abroad to register as what?
FOREIGN AGENTS
What Denver Nuggets big man has won the NBA MVP award for a third time?
NIKOLA JOKIC is the NBA MVP once more, making him the fifth player to win the award three times.
Ousman Sonko, the former interior minister of what African country, was convicted by a Swiss court of crimes against humanity? Sonko is the highest-ranking official to be convicted by a European court under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
THE GAMBIA (Sonko served under Gambia’s president/dictator Yahya Jammeh 1996-2016)
Mahamat Deby was confirmed as the winner in the disputed presidential election of what African country, whose previous president was killed in 2021? 2024
Chad (Idriss Deby was his dad who died in 2021)
What A-list actor will be making his Broadway debut in the stage adaptation of Good Night, and Good Luck? 2024
George Clooney
Britney Spears 2023 memoir title
The Woman In Me
What South Dakota governor’s campaign memoir No Going Back has cratered her chances of securing the vice presidential nomination after a story about shooting her dog gained national attention?
KRISTI NOEM
Only Say Good Things: Surviving ______ and Finding Myself is a memoir by Crystal Hefner. What location fills in the blank?
Playboy
The 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography went to Cristina Rivera Garza about whose “invincible summer”?
LILIANA’S INVINCIBLE SUMMER: A SISTER’S SEARCH FOR JUSTICE. Cristiana’s sister, Liliana, was murdered in 1990 in Mexico. The culprit was almost certainly Liliana’s boyfriend at the time, one Ángel González Ramos.
Who wrote 2024 memoir The House of Hidden Meanings?
Ru Paul
Who wrote 2024 memoir A Very Private School?
Charles Spencer (Diana brother)
Ariana Grande 7th album released in 2024?
Eternal Sunshine
What is the title of Billie Eilish’s third studio album, her follow-up to 2021’s Happier Than Ever?
Hit Me Hard and Soft
What singer-songwriter, whose aesthetic is heavily influenced by drag queen campiness, saw a surge in popularity this year with her hit song “Good Luck, Babe!”?
Chappell Roan
Which Kendrick Lamar song, part of the Kendrick vs Drake beef of 2024, has topped the Billboard charts at No. 1?
NOT LIKE US
Which is London’s oldest professional football club?
Fulham
Featuring in a list of the top 50 most visited websites in the world in March 2024, and originally founded by Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia fame, which hosting service enables communities of enthusiasts to share information on a variety of entertainment topics?
Fandom
First patented in 1931, what is the formal name for an ant farm?
Formicarium
Possibly based on a Scandinavian word, which expression in English might mean a piece of nonsense or idle talk, or an attempt at deception?
Flimflam
Referring to an item first adopted as an emblem by the French Canadians along the Saint Lawrence River in the early 1700s, what is the name of a gold bullion coin produced annually by the Royal Canadian Mint?
Maple Leaf
Derived from a Danish word meaning a pair of outstretched arms, which unit of measurement equivalent to 1.8288 metres is still used by the U.S. Hydrographic Office to measure water depths in excess of 30 feet?
Fathom
Which word derived from Latin means an employee who does all kinds of work?
Factotum
Whose official residence is Winfield House in Regent’s Park, which has the largest private garden in London after Buckingham Palace?
The United States Ambassador to the UK
In the French appellation d’origine contrôlée system for the wine trade, what is the meaning of the expression “Vins de primeur”, of which the best-known example is probably Beaujolais Nouveau?
Wines which are permitted to be sold in the same year that they are harvested
For which 1981 romantic comedy did Sir John Gielgud receive his only Oscar, playing a butler?
Arthur
Why is Andy Murray’s 2014 autobiography titled “Seventy-Seven”?
77 years since Fred Perry’s Wimbledon win in 1936 to 2013
In the decorating world, which products are now principally made from Benzyl alcohol, since the use of Dichloromethane was banned on health grounds in 2010?
Paint Strippers
Which British institution has a nickname derived from its perceived prudish and puritanical approach in the 1950s and 1960s?
Auntie BBC
Which long running farce which ran in the West End from 1971 until 1987 starred in the lead role Michael Crawford, David Jason and Andrew Sachs (and Ronnie Corbett in the 1973 film) and is the longest running comedy in West End history?
No Sex Please, We’re British
What name is given to the mix of chemicals used in the final step in the photographic processing of film to stabilise the image?
Fixer
What role did Therese Coffey play in the 2022 Conservative Party leadership election?
Liz Truss Campaign Manager
If 10 corresponds with 78 and 12 with 33, what would go with 7?
45 (inches to RPM on shellac/vinyl records)
Which is the most common surname in France, also shared by a British TV celebrity chef, the frontman for a band formed at University College London in 1997 and the co-founder of a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars?
Martin – James the chef, Chris the frontman and Lionel the car man
Hosts of the Sports Agent podcast
Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman
The supporters of which Championship club use the hashtag #MOT, taken from a 1972 team song?
Leeds United (it stands for Marching On Together)
What type of domestic animal is a Nebelung?
German for creature of the mist.
Cat
Which Danish football club was established in 1992 following the merger of Kjøbenhavns Boldklub and Boldklubben 1903?
FC Copenhagen
On a piano, which foot would you use to operate the soft pedal?
Left
In which United Arab Emirates city can you visit the Souk Al Bahar (the “sailor’s market”)?
Dubai
What word can describe the circle around a lacrosse goal, an area of damage on a surfboard, or a line marked on a cricket pitch?
Crease
Pundamilia is the Swahili word for which animal?
Zebra
Which country lies to the north of Australia across the Arafura Sea?
Indonesia
Which sea name is therefore from the indigenous name for “the people of mountains” in the Moluccas (part of Indonesia) as identified by Dutch Lieutenants Kolff and Modera in the 1830’s? Others say a tribe of Portuguese origins.
Arafura Sea
Which song from 1990 features the lines “I’m headin’ down the Atlanta highway, Lookin’ for the love getaway”?
Love Shack
In which racket sport do teams compete for the Thomas Cup?
Badminton
Between 1978 and 2002, Daniel arap Moi served as president of which African country?
Kenya
In reference to vacuum cleaner filters, what does HEPA stand for?
High-Efficiency Particulate Air
In which Netherlands city does the John Frost Bridge cross over the river Rhine?
Arnhem
Known for their 1960 hit single Walk - Don’t Run, Don Wilson and Bob Bogle were the principal members of which American instrumental musical group?
The Ventures
Which Egyptian city is home to the Mummification Museum?
Luxor
Which word for a blend of young salad greens derives its name from the Occitan word for “mixture”?
Mesclun
Which American dance band had a 1983 hit with Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life?
Indeep
Who was the U.S. president in the year that Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush were born?
Harry S Truman 1946
The annual Lord of Miracles procession takes place every October in which South American country?
Lima, Peru
Which Italian printer was appointed Director of Royal Typography of Parma in 1768, and has a font named after him?
Giambattista Bodoni
Which Egyptian mathematician wrote the 2nd-century astronomical manual The Almagest?
Ptolemy
Which conflict of 1547 was the last pitched battle between English and Scottish armies?
Battle of Pinkie
Toecutter, the leader of The Acolytes motorcycle gang, is a main character in which 1979 Australian film?
Mad Max
What colour does litmus paper turn when exposed to an alkaline or base?
Blue
Analogous to a cube having 6 faces made of squares, what 3 dimensional shape has 6 faces that are all parallelograms?
Parallelepiped
Launched in 1958, what was the name of the first satellite launched by the United States in response to the launch of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1 and 2 satellites?
Explorer I
Caused by infections, allergies or skin conditions, ‘Cheilitis’ is the swelling or inflammation of which facial body part?
Lips
A bird of prey also known as the Pern, which summer migrant to Europe is a specialist feeder on the larvae of wasps, hornets and bees? Despite its name it is more related to Kites.
Honey Buzzard
Found in the desert landscapes of Namibia and the Northern Cape of South Africa, which tall succulents are named after their hollowed branches being used to carry arrows by the indigenous San people? (Stanley Kubrick was alleged to illegally cut down a bunch of these whilst making 2001: A Space Odyssey)
Quiver Tree
(V) This city in Karelia was once the second-largest city in Finland, but the Soviet Union annexed it following the Winter War. It remains part of Russia today.
Vyborg
(V) In the Indian state of Karnataka, you can visit the ruins of which city, which in the 1500’s AD was probably the second most populous city on Earth? In those days, this city was the capital of a powerful empire that controlled most of southern India.
Vijaynagara
(V) This Adriatic seaport is the third-largest city in Alabania. The independence of Albania was declared here in 1912.
Vlore
(V) This Spanish university town, the capital of Castille and Leon, is located on the Pisuerga River, just upstream of where it flows into the larger Duoro. Some of northern Spain’s most famous and most productive wine growing regions are nearby in the Duoro valley.
Valladolid
(W) This city in southern Ireland, on the river Suir, is famous around the world for the high-quality crystal it produces. A famous crystal-making company is named for this city.
Waterford
(V) The first city founded by Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes in Mexico was this coastal city located on the Gulf of Mexico about 250 miles / 400 km east of Mexico City. Its location in coastal lowlands made it a notoriously disease-ridden city before the advent of modern medicine and a condition known as “el vomito” plagued soldiers who were stationed at its fortress of San Juan de Ulua (pictured).
Veracruz
(W) The Atlantic coast of Namibia is famously inhospitable to life of any kind and has earned the nickname “Skeleton Coast” because of the danger it poses for sailors. The only safe harbor on Namibia’s coast is which second-largest city of Namibia, the nation’s only major port?
Walvis Bay
(U) Gilgamesh, the hero of the Epic of Gilgamesh, was the king of which Sumerian city? This city lends its name to a period of Sumerian history from around 4000 to 3100 BC that saw the emergence of urbanization and writing in the region.
Uruk
(Y) This Siberian city on the Lena River is the largest city in the world built on top of permafrost. It is the capital of Russia’s Sakha Republic.
Yakutsk
(U) This city in western Ukraine is the capital of the Zakarpattia Oblast. As one of the largest cities in the region known as Subcarpathaian Ruthenia, Transcarpathia, or Kárpátalja, it was part of Hungary before World War I, part of Czechoslovakia between the world wars, and part of the Soviet Union after World War II.
Uzhgorod
(U) In northern Tunisia, you can find the ruins of which Carthaginian city, an important ally of Carthage in all three Punic Wars? There is also a city with this name in the US state of New York: fans of the “Steamed Hams” meme will recognize the American city with this name as the home town of the Simpsons character Superintendant Chalmers. Steamed Hams are unheard of there.
Utica
(V) This historic Swedish city, formerly a member of the Hanseatic League, is the capital of the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea.
Visby
(V) This Russian city of nearly 300,000 people in the Caucauses is the capital of North Ossetia. The majority of this city’s inhabitants are ethnic Ossetians who speak a language more closely related to Persian than to Russian.
Vladikavkaz
(Z) This Chinese city of 12 million people is the capital of Henan Province. Foxconn has its largest factory in this city, leading to its nickname of “iPhone City”.
Zhengzhou
(U) The Pyramid of the Magician (pictured) is one of the major landmarks of which Mayan city located on the Yucatan Peninsula? It is significantly older than the more famous site of Chichen Itza nearby.
Uxmal
(Z) This historic Croatian city is located on the Dalmatian coast, north of Split but south of Riejka. Its Church of St. Donatus (pictured) dates to the 9th century AD and is located on its old Roman Forum.
Zadar
(U) One of the major stops on the Trans-Siberian Railway is which capital city of Russia’s Republic of Buryatia? This city is located just south of Lake Baikal.
Ulan-Ude
(U) Fans of geography likely know that Barrow, Alaska is the northernmost city in the United States, located on the shores of the Arctic Ocean near the northernmost point in Alaska. But do you know the name of Barrow in the native Inuit language? In 2016, the city actually adopted this native name as its official legal name.
Utqiagvik
(W) From 1871 - 2005, a company called the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM in both German and French) manufactured most of the world’s mountain railway equipment. That company was located in which sixth-largest city in Switzerland. Today, it is one of Switzerland’s main tech hubs.
Winterthur
(W) This German city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is perhaps best known for its suspension monorail, which opened in 1901 and has delighted public transit enthusiasts and railfans ever since. Many tourists come here just to ride this delightful gadgetbahn and some even refer to ALL suspension monorails by this city’s name.
Wuppertal
(Z) This ski town in the Tatras mountains of southern Poland is a popular day trip from Krakow.
Zakopane
(U) This town of 19,000 people in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa is perhaps most notable as the site of the final battle of the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879. During that war, it served as the capital of the Zulu king Cetshwayo (pictured) as he led his people against the British.
Ulundi
(V) This historic French city located just south of Lyon on the Rhone dates back to Roman times and was an important city in Provence in medieval times as well. In French, its name is identical to that of another, much more famous city in this quiz, while in English the names differ only by one letter.
Vienne
(V) This South African city in Gauteng Province is perhaps best known for being the site of the 1902 treaty that ended the Second Boer War and made the Transvaal and the Orange Free State colonies of Great Britain.
Vereeniging
What was the title of the 1956 film based on a biography of the same name which starred Kenneth More as Flight Cadet (later Group Captain) Douglas Bader?
Reach for the Sky
Which 1971 song takes its title from an ancient Arabic legend about the unhappy love of a young man, and is said to have been inspired by Eric Clapton’s secret love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend George Harrison?
Layla
Originating from Royal Navy slang for a meal of pease pudding, dried peas boiled in a cloth bag, and later coming to mean someone who is given menial tasks, what was Group Captain Douglas Bader’s RAF call sign?
Dogsbody
An advertisement, appropriately, for which organisation broke the world record for the world’s smallest ad in the year 2000, when scientists at The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford fitted a piece of film no bigger than the width of a human hair to the knee of a bee.
Guinness World Records launching its new website
Which 1980 heavy metal album is the highest selling album by a group of all time, despite never making it to number 1 in the US?
Back in Black by AC/DC
Which widely adulterated product derived from the flowers of the Broom Tea Tree native to Australasia sells more by weight in the UK alone (1,800 tonnes) than its total annual production (1,700 tonnes)?
Manuka Honey
Which hotel is located at the end of Lonely Street?
Heartbreak Hotel
Which rock and roll bassist in 1993 became the father-in-law of his ex-mother-in-law and the step grandfather of his former wife when his son by a previous marriage married his recently ex-wife’s mother?
Bill Wyman
What is the epitaph on the tombstone of naval historian C Northcote Parkinson, who wrote a book called In-Laws and Outlaws in 1962?
work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion
In the old joke, “what is the difference between in-laws and outlaws”, what is the punchline?
Outlaws are wanted
Don Johnson, Steven Bauer and Antonio Banderas were all sons-in-law of The Birds actress Tippi Hedren through their marriage to which actress, Hedren’s daughter, who won a Best Actress nomination for Working Girl in 1988?
Melanie Griffiths
Round 4 is another collection of esoteric general knowledge. Which is the lowest four-digit prime number and also the largest number which, when written in Roman numerals, makes a valid Scrabble word?
1009 (MIX)
Which creature which has the Latin name Struthio Camelus is not a camel at all, but the bird which causes more deaths in humans than any other bird on the planet?
Ostrich
Which musical film which was number one at the UK box office for three weeks in 2022 contains a number titled “Telly” sung by the title character’s father, the first line of which is “All I know I learned from telly”?
Matilda The Musical
Which two-word phrase which means “a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations” was Oxford Languages’ word of the year in 2022?
Goblin Mode
Which name for an inflammatory disease of the lungs is derived from an ancient Greek verb meaning “to breathe hard, or to blow”?
Asthma
Beer barrel sizes in order going up from Firkin ONLY CONNECT
Firkin
Kilderkin
Barrel
Hogshead
Spoof FFF system of units means what?
Furlong-Firkin-Fortnight System
Finish the sequence ONLY CONNECT: Force India, Racing Point Force India, Racing Point…
ASTON MARTIN
What is name of F1 team formerly Benetton, Lotus, Renault, ….? ONLY CONNECT
Alpine
Guiness Book of Records founders twin surnames
McWhirter
Sauber Motorsport previous four names ONLY CONNECT
BMW Sauber
Sauber
Alfa Romeo
Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber
Known now as RB F1 team from 2024, what were two previous names? Can even have previous one that was bought out to become second name. ONLY CONNECT
Previous: Minardi
2006-19: Scuderia Toro Rosso
2020-23: Scuderia AlphaTauri
Which American engineer competed with Thomas Edison’s direct current by developing and marketing alternating current for electric power distribution?
George Westinghouse
Proponents of what concept suggest certain features of the universe and living organisms are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than natural processes such as evolution through natural selection?
Intelligent Design
The UK edition of what general interest magazine has announced it will cease publication after 86 years?
Reader’s Digest
Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker founded what coffeehouse chain in 1971?
Starbucks
Jeremiah Manele became the prime minister of which Pacific island country in May 2024 after his predecessor Manasseh Sogavare decided not to seek another term?
Solomon Islands
What do you call the technique used in drawing or painting to transfer a design from one surface to another using a powdered medium such as charcoal or chalk?
Pouncing
Which actress became the first Australian to earn the AFI Life Achievement Award in April 2024 for her contributions to American cinema?
Nicole Kidman
Which US psychologist is best known for her research on grit, a strength she defines as passion and perseverance for long-term goals?
Angela Duckworth
Placido Domingo, Enrico Caruso, and Mario Lanza have what type of classical male singing voice?
Tenor
What 2019 Disney film is currently the highest-grossing animated film of all time?
The Lion King
Named after either the Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901 or his wife, what do you call the Australian dessert that consists of squares of sponge cake coated in a layer of chocolate icing and then rolled in desiccated coconut?
Lamington Cake
What ballroom and folk dance takes its name from the German word meaning “to roll or revolve”?
Waltz
What term refers to a variant form of a gene that can occur at a particular position on a chromosome? They are responsible for the variation in observable traits among individuals within a population.
Allele
Music producer of The Buggles, Yes and The Art of Noise born in Hetton-le-Hole in 1949
Trevor Horn
Born Karl Sandberg, music producer formerly of band It’s Alive
Max Martin
Born 1948 Melton, Suffolk, music producer worked with Scratch Orchestra, Fripp & ____, Portsmouth Sinfonia, Roxy Music and Harmonia 76.
Brian Eno
Born 1948, Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia. South African who third wife was Shania Twain, music producer.
Robert “Mutt” Lange
Born Timothy Zachery Mosley 1972, cousin Pharell Williams. Music producer.
Timbaland
1963 born Long Beach, NY. Nicknames: DJ Double R, the Loudness King. Music Producer.
Rick Rubin
Nicknames Pipecock Jackson and The Upsetter. Born 1936 Jamaica, Music Producer. Died 2021.
Lee Scratch Perry
Born 1944, Record producer, manager (The Rolling Stones), impresario, author.
Andrew Loog OLDHAM
Born 1955 in Egham, Surrey. Record producer (U2, XTC, Morrissey, Ultravox, Big Country, The Psychedelic Furs, The Pogues).
Steve Lillywhite
Born 1939, died 1967 at 37 years old. Co-owner of Triumph record label. The Tornados’ instrumental “Telstar” (1962), written and produced by this guy. Shot himself with gun owned by Heinz Burt.
Joe Meek
an American R&B/pop songwriting and record production team. Their productions have received commercial success since the 1980s with various artists, most extensively Janet Jackson. They have written 31 top ten hits in the UK and 41 in the US. In 2022, the duo were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Musical Excellence category.
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
His notable production credits include Badfinger’s Straight Up (1971), Grand Funk Railroad’s We’re an American Band (1973), the New York Dolls’ New York Dolls (1973), Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell (1977), and XTC’s Skylarking (1986). He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021. A member of the bands Nazz and Utopia.
Todd Rundgren
American record producer, musician and singer, most famously T. Rex and David Bowie from Bowie’s 1968 single “In the Heat of the Morning” / “London Bye Ta-Ta” to his final album Blackstar in 2016. Grammy for Blackstar.
Tony Visconti
British record producer, musician and an original partner/director at Tony Wilson’s Factory Records, produced loads of that era bands. Died 42 from drugs and excess. Played by Andy Serkis in 24 Hour Party People.
Martin Hannett
Born William Wainwright in 1956, music producer sold 200m recordings worldwide of work. Done All Saints Black Coffee and Pure Shores. Bassomatic and Torch Song projects. Grammy Award for Madonna’s Ray of Light and Beautiful Stranger song.
William Orbit
American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. She was the lead singer and primary songwriter of 4 Non Blondes, and has since founded two record labels and composed and produced songs for other artists, which include: “Beautiful” by Christina Aguilera; “What You Waiting For?” by Gwen Stefani; and “Get the Party Started” by Pink.
Linda Perry
English record producer and recording engineer. His production credits include Magazine’s Real Life (1978); XTC’s White Music (1978); Dukes of Stratosphear’s 25 O’Clock and the Fall’s This Nation’s Saving Grace (both 1985); the Stone Roses’ The Stone Roses (1989); the Verve’s A Storm in Heaven (1993); Radiohead’s The Bends (1995); Cast’s All Change (1995); Muse’s Origin of Symmetry (2001); and the Levellers’ We the Collective (2018).
John Leckie
American musician and audio engineer who was a member of the influential post-hardcore and noise rock bands Big Black (1981–1987), Rapeman (1987–1989) and Shellac (1992–2024). He was the founder, owner, and principal engineer of the Chicago recording studio Electrical Audio. Died May 2024.
Steve Albini
American musician, record producer, and songwriter who is the drummer and co-producer of the rock band Garbage. Known for producing the diamond-selling Nirvana album Nevermind (1991).
Butch Vig
Different from most batteries, what do you call an electrochemical cell that converts the chemical energy of a fuel and an oxidizing agent into electricity through a pair of redox reactions?
Fuel Cell
Which communist politician was the leader of East Germany from 1971 to 1989?
Erich Honecker
From President Wilhelm Pieck’s death in 1960 on, he was also the East German head of state until his own death in 1973? Preceded Erich Honecker.
Walter Ulbricht
Quarterback Caleb Williams was the first overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft. He was selected by what team?
Chicago Bears
Chocobos, Moogles, and Cactuars are fictional species that appear in what video game franchise?
Final Fantasy
The 1952 painting Mountains and Sea was the first professionally exhibited work of which female abstract expressionist painter?
Helen Frankenthaler
Which rock band released the song “Mr. Roboto” in 1983?
Styx
Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen created what website in 1999? This website later evolved into the Internet comedy company CH Media and it is doing business under the name Dropout.
CollegeHumor
Which US naval officer was best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War?
George Dewey
Regarded by several people as the best Gambian footballer of all time, Biri Biri played for which Spanish football club from 1973 to 1978?
Sevilla FC
The honden is the most sacred building at a shrine for what religion?
Shinto
What name is given to the traditional Japanese undergarment for males and females, made from a length of cotton?
Fundoshi
The siege of which island was lifted as a result of Operation Pedestal to carry supplies there in August 1942?
Malta
What is the name of the world’s busiest motor vehicle bridge, a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River, connecting New Jersey with Manhattan?
The George Washington Bridge, often known just as “The George”
The roots of which plant (also known as endive and radiccio) are cultivated as a coffee substitute and are a principal ingredient of Camp Coffee?
Chicory
Which word borrowed from Latin is used to mark the conclusion of a logical argument and, when reversed, is used in folklore and mythology for a hideous giant?
Ergo
Which radio presenter hosted a Saturday morning show on BBC Radio 5 Live which included the Sausage Sandwich Game until he was fired in 2019 for “a serious error of judgement” over a tweet following the birth of Archie Mountbatten-Windsor?
Danny Baker
George Clooney, Alfonso Cuarón, Walt Disney and which British actor and filmmaker born in Belfast in 1960 are the only four people to have been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories?
Kenneth Branagh
Which Marvel Comics mercenary was briefly married to Shiklah, Queen of the Underworld?
Deadpool
David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azaria, and Tim Curry were original cast members of what 2005 Broadway musical?
Spamalot
Which Doctor Who star was the first actor to play Robin Hood on BBC TV in 1953?
Patrick Troughton
Which Football Hall of Famer is the only NFL quarterback to play in four consecutive Super Bowls?
Jim Kelly
What is the food source of a graminivorous animal?
Grass
Which celestial body that orbits the Sun every 1,679 days was discovered by Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801?
Ceres
Which former Iranian judge was the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
Shirin EBADI
What is the single-word name by which the aria L’amour est un oiseau rebelle is most commonly known?
Habanera
Born from a mix of sources and genres, particularly electronic music and minimalism, what genre of music came from West Germany towards the end of the 1960s? The name is of uncertain origin, but is potentially of British origin due to it including a derogatory name for Germans used by Brits during World War II.
Krautrock
“At what precise moment had Peru fucked itself up?” This line is the second sentence in the English translation of Conversation in the Cathedral, a novel by which writer, who set many of his works in his native Peru?
Mario VARGAS LLOSA
At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Surya Bonaly successfully performed what manoeuvre during her routine, despite the move being banned in competition? She remains the only person ever to land this move at an Olympic Games.
Backflip
Ahmad Shah Abdali is often seen as the Father of modern Afghanistan as the founder of what empire, which ruled large parts of Central Asia during the 18th and 19th century?
Durrani
Later lending its name to a video game development company, what term is used in Go for a position where a stone has only one remaining vacant space - or “liberty” - and can be captured on the next move?
Atari
What Japanese word is used to denote the people who were alive for and exposed to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? As of March this year, just over 110,000 were still alive.
Hibakusha
What brand of beer rose to memetic fame in 2024 when the Internet discovered a marketing campaign where spots involving the beer were edited into scenes in the Star Wars films?
Cerveza Cristal
Aamir Khan’s character Bhuvan hits a six on the final ball to win a cricket game and save the village of Champaner from financial ruin at the end of what 2001 Hindi-language film?
Lagaan
Also serving as First Lady from 2006 to 2009 while her husband Manuel Zelaya was in power, which politician is the current president of Honduras? Upon her election in January 2022, she became the nation’s first female leader.
Xiomara CASTRO
In March 2016, Microsoft released a chatbot with what name? The intention of the bot was to interact with Twitter users and learn, which went predictably badly and resulted in tweets such as the pictured.
Tay
Which Chinese philosopher is often considered the third great Confucian thinker, after Mencius and Confucius himself? A core tenet of his philosophy was that humans are evil by their nature, and that education was key to rising above oneself.
Xunzi
What eponymous rule in zoology suggests that among a species of animals, those of a darker or heavier pigment tend to live in humid environments and those with a lighter pigmentation find habitats in more arid environments?
Gloger’s Rule
In the title of a musical romcom which premiered in 2019, Briton Dougal and American Robin are Two Strangers who do what? A six-word phrase is required.
Two Strangers CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK
What name links
1) An actor who played the Duke of Wellington in the 2023 biopic Napoleon
2) The author of Erasure, on which the 2023 film American Fiction is based
3) A radio DJ and comedian who created the characters of Cupid Stunt and Sid Snot?
Everett, (Rupert, Percival and Kenny)
What links
1) Bubo in the 1981 film Clash of the Titans
2)Tyto alba
3) A “Service” in a 1967 fantasy novel by Alan Garner
Owl
What name links
1) the war artist who painted The Battle of Britain (picture)
2) An English singer-songwriter. Her 2007 UK no.1 debut album was Made of Bricks
3) An American poet who wrote Reflections on Ice-breaking ……“Candy is Dandy but liquor is quicker”
Nash (Paul, Kate and Ogden)
Born in the Republic of Geneva, which amateur mathematician, known for his 1814 proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra, gives his name to a diagrammatic interpretation of complex numbers?
Argand (Jean-Robert)
With its current logo originating in 1886 based on the 16th century founder of the company, Pierre Lacroix, which French brand of cigarette rolling paraphernalia was sold to Imperial Tobacco in 1997?
Rizla (+)
What three letter name links
1) An American journalist who feigned insanity to gain admission to a New York women’s asylum, later writing a 1887 exposé ,Ten Days in a Mad House. During her 72 day world circumnavigation in 1889-1890 she met Jules Verne.
2)A leader of the mythopoietic men’s movement who wrote the 1990 book Iron John: A Book About Men as his counterblast to feminism?
Bly (Nellie and Robert)
Which politically influential Soviet agronomist (1898-1976) suppressed critics of his anti-Mendelian, anti-statistical theories of crop research, resulting in their sentencing to death by the Stalinist regime when they refused to renounce modern genetic theories?
Lysenko (Trofim)
Eleanor of Aquitaine’s French husband name and number
Louis VII
red paint contains two organic red dyes: alizarin and purpurin, pigment extracted used to be from Rubia tinctorum plant.
Rose madder
What (surprisingly) links
1) Swedish ready-to-wear luxury fashion “studios” which originated when Jonny Johannson created 100 pairs of raw denim jeans with red stitching
2) a common pustular skin eruption developed by adolescents with oily skin, associated with a Cutibacterium species?
Acne (studios)
Sadly attractive to slugs, what genus of shade-tolerant plants (pictured) of the family Asparagaceae is widely cultivated for its low growing ornamental foliage?
HOSTAS, plantain lilies or occasionally by the Japanese name gibōshi
the mother of Apollo and Artemis
Leto
What name links
1) The artist of The Judgement of Paris (pictured)
2) the Booker prize-winning Welsh author of the 1969 novel The Elected Member? She is still the only Welsh author to have won the Booker.
Rubens (Peter Paul and Bernice)
The Swiss duo of Felix Haug and Kurt Maloo released the International hit single The Captain of Her Heart in 1985 under what name?
Double
Along with her husband Robert and Frantisek Kupka, which textile designer and artist pioneered the Orphism art movement with colourful large-scale abstract paintings and textiles? She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective at the Louvre in 1964.
Sonia DELAUNEY
Which barbarian soldier and statesman overthrew the child Emperor Romulus Augustus in 476 CE, ruling Italy until he himself was deposed and killed by Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths in 493 CE?
Odoacer
Originating from a nomadic Bedouin tribe, which Kingdom dating from the 3rd century BCE had its capital at Petra, a trading hub of the incense route, until it fell to the Roman Emperor Trajan in 106 CE?
Nabataean Kingdom
Which Major League baseball player of the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves broke Babe Ruth’s Home Run record in 1973, holding the record until his own record of 755 was surpassed by Barry Bonds in 2007?
Hank AARON
Alongside Dawn Fraser, Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky, which Hungarian woman is the only other swimmer to win the same event at three consecutive Olympics, having won the 200m backstroke in 1988, 1992 and 1996?
Egerszegi (Krisztina)
Created from 1977, Andy Warhol’s Oxidation paintings were produced by performing what action on copper-coated canvases?
Urinating
With its sliding carriage aiding highly effective core conditioning, what piece of Pilates apparatus is pictured? It shares its name with a petrochemical industry apparatus for upgrading heavy naphtha into high octane, commercially useful products
Reformer
Named for Danish and French dermatologists, which Connective Tissue disorder with 13 subtypes is characterised by joint hypermobility and extreme skin elasticity? Its rare vascular COL3A1 genetic variant can potentially cause fatal intestinal, uterine or major blood vessel rupture.
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Which endangered wild cat with the Latin name Leopardus wiedii is endemic to central and South America and is pictured below?
Margay
With 31 wins in her professional career so far since 1983, which American professional golfer is the only LPGA Tour golfer to win two majors a decade for three consecutive decades?
Juli INKSTER
A ballerina (Picture) who was the first African-American woman to be promoted to Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theatre? She became a sponsored athlete for the Sportswear company Under Armour in 2014.
Misty COPELAND
The spectral steed Torrent is the mount of the player, the Tarnished, in which 2022 action role-playing game set in the Lands Between, following the shattering of the title object and the disappearance of Queen Marika?
Elden Ring
Aged 75, which Argentinian pianist’s performance of Liszt’s First Piano Concerto at the 2016 Proms was conducted by Daniel Barenboim? A child prodigy who almost stopped playing, she won the VII International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1965.
Martha ARGERICH
Which Old Testament prophet and miracle worker of 1 Kings and 2 Kings is the subject and title character of an 1846 Felix Mendelssohn oratorio?
Elijah
G: Grown widely in Germany and Alsace, which pink-skinned grape variety native to Italy’s South Tyrol produces an aromatic, sweet white varietal wine said to compliment spicy food? It is the most common variety used for vendange tardive (Late Harvest) wines.
Gewürztraminer
With products including the perfume Trésor, which French cosmetics and perfume house founded in 1935 by Guillame d’Ornano had the actress Isabella Rossellini as its international face from 1982 to 1996 and then again in 2016? Zendaya, Aya Nakamura and Amanda Seyfried are also muses for this brand.
Lancôme
485 to 444 million years ago, which Geological period saw a four-fold increase in marine fauna, the movement of primitive plants onto dry land and the orogeny of the Appalachian mountain chain?
Ordovician
Worn iconically by Uma Thurman in the film Kill Bill, the Mexico 66 sneaker is a product of which “feline” Japanese sports fashion brand founded in 1949? Acquired by Asics in 1977, the brand has a namesake flagship store on London’s Regent Street.
Onitsuka Tiger
Named for its discoverer, the biochemist Marilyn Kozak, the consensus sequence 5’-gccgccRccAUGG-3’ allows the binding of which multi-subunit cellular organelle to eukaryotic mRNA?
Ribosome
Founded in 1982 and featuring a volatile petrochemical weapon in its name, which Birmingham heavy metal band’s 1987 debut album Scum contained the one second track You Suffer, whilst 1988’s From Enslavement To Obliteration featured the track Cock-Rock Alienation? Mark Greenway current lead singer.
Napalm Death
What name links
1)The director of the 1992 adaptation of Graham Swift’s novel Waterland, starring Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack and Ethan Hawke
2)An actor who wrote and directed her 2021 adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novel The Lost Daughter, starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Jessie Buckley
Gyllenhaal (Stephen and Maggie are father and daughter)
Which French actress, a recipient of a 2014 Cesar award, is known for her lead role as Adèle in the 2013 film Blue is the Warmest Colour? Her other roles include Agathe in the 2023 romantic drama Passages, in which she stars alongside Ben Whishaw?
Exarchopoulos (Adèle)
Armand-Marie Leroi, an Imperial College Professor of evolutionary biology wrote an award-winning 2004 popular science book entitled _______: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body. What word fills the gap?
Mutants
Which 2011 Lego production line with tie-in computer animated TV series on the Cartoon Network features the Elemental Master of Energy, Lloyd Garmadon, protecting the title land from the forces of evil?
Ninjago
9d What two words link
1) The Manchester Indy band who sang 1991’s jangly guitar song Can You Dig It
2) A character played by Cary Grant in the 1933 Paramount film of Alice in Wonderland?
Mock Turtles
Old accounting firm who were part of original Big 8 auditing firms. The firm collapsed by mid-2002, as details of its questionable accounting practices for energy company Enron and telecommunications company WorldCom were revealed amid the two high-profile bankruptcies. The scandals were a factor in the enactment of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002.
Arthur Andersen
Ernst and Young were made from a merger of which two full name companies?
Ernst & Whinney
Arthur Young
PriceWaterhouseCoopers were made from merger between Price Waterhouse and which other Big 8 firm full name please?
Coopers & Lybrand
Within, KPMG the PM stands for what the original Big 8 company being merged with the Klynveld Main Goerdeler part?
Peat Marwick
British multinational construction and facilities management services company headquartered in Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom, prior to its liquidation in January 2018. KPMG told off for bad auditing.
Carillion
insolvent German payment processor and financial services provider whose former CEO, COO, two board members, and other executives have been arrested or otherwise implicated in criminal proceedings. $1.9 billion missing cash missed by EY in 2020.
Wirecard
sandwich that is a specialty of Nice, France. The sandwich is composed of pain de campagne, a whole wheat bread, enclosing the classic salade niçoise, a salad composed mainly of raw vegetables, hard boiled eggs, anchovies and/or tuna, and olive oil, salt, and pepper.
Pan Bagnat
Which semiconductor device, used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power, superseded vacuum tubes in electronic equipment? The name of this device precedes the word ‘radio’ in the name of a type of portable radio popular in the 1960s and ’70s.
Transistor
What word beginning with T is used in pottery for the process of shaping a pot on a wheel? It is not to be confused with ‘turning’ and sounds like something you should not do with a pot.
Throwing
The three Olympic equestrian disciplines are dressage, show jumping and which other? Pippa Funnell [fun-NELL] and Zara Tindall have won international medals in this discipline, which sees competitors take part in dressage, cross-country and show jumping on successive days.
Three Day Eventing
In the classic American sitcom I Dream of Jeannie, which actor played the role of Tony, an astronaut who marries the 2000-year-old genie of the show’s title? This actor found greater fame with a long-running TV role that began in 1978.
Larry HAGMAN
Which battle of 216 BC resulted in the total defeat of Roman Republic forces by the Carthaginians, with Carthaginian commander Hannibal using a double-envelopment tactic to practically annihilate the Roman army? This battle followed earlier Carthiginian victories at Trebia and Lake Trasimene.
CANNAE
What modern portmanteau parenting term is used to describe a rebellious and strong-willed three-year-old?
Threenager
Which Bulgarian athlete set a world record of 2.09 metres in the women’s high jump in 1987, which still stands today?
Kostadinova
Which red-skinned, seven-tongued deity is the god of fire in Hinduism?
Agni
Which crime novelist has written a series of Hercule Poirot continuation novels with the blessing of the Agatha Christie estate, including The Monogram Murders, Closed Casket and The Mystery of Three Quarters? She is also known for her crime thrillers featuring the characters Charlie Zailer and Simon Waterhouse
Sophie HANNAH
In 2021, Nigo [nee-go] was appointed creative director of what French fashion house? This fashion brand takes its name from the given name of its founder, who has the surname Takada.
Kenzo
Which English civil engineer designed the third Eddystone lighthouse off the coast of Cornwall, which was greatly influential on lighthouse design and an important step in the development of modern concrete?
John SMEATON
The cover of which 1996 album by Super Furry Animals features images of notorious drug smuggler Howard Marks in various disguises?
Fuzzy Logic
What word is commonly used to describe the points on a plant stem where the leaves attach? It is not to be confused with the petiole, which is the stalk attaching the blade to the stem.
Node
Which 1993 movie, the directorial debut of the Hughes Brothers, follows the lives of teenager Caine Lawson and his friend O-Dog in the brutal gang lifestyle of South Los Angeles? The movie also features Jada Pinkett and the rapper MC Eiht in their first film roles.
Menace II Society
the headmistress of St. Trinian’s
Camilla Fritton
What 4 letter name is given to the shallow depression or flattened nest of grass that a hare lives in?
Form
Beginning with an ‘I’, but usually denoted with by the letter ‘j’. In mechanics what name is given to a change in an object’s momentum?
Impulse
Omega Centauri, 47 Tucanae and Messier 13 (M13) are all examples of what astronomical objects? These compact spherical star clusters contain between 1000 - 1 million gravitationally bound stars and contain some of the oldest known stars in the Universe.
Globular Clusters
Formed in pools of water in caves, what two word name is given to the spherical concretions of calcite, which builds up over the time around a nucleus?
Cave Pearls
With a name meaning “beside crested lizard”. Which duck-billed hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period (76.9 - 73.5 million years ago) seen below, was recognisable by a large, hollow crest protruding out of its head?
Parasaurolophus
Quasi-satellites are objects in our solar system that despite orbiting the Sun, appear to rotate around a planet due to their orbital configurations. In 2002, a sub kilometre asteroid denoted 524522 Zoozve became the first known quasi-satellite to be discovered ‘orbiting’ which of the terrestrial planets?
Venus
MINT countries of emerging economies
Mexico Indonesia Nigeria Turkey
Which television show’s theme tune begins with the words: “It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights”?
The Muppet Show
SPORT: What is the maximum number of players who may be on a baseball field when the pitcher throws the ball?
13 - 9 in defence and 3 batters on bases
NURSERY RHYMES: Who came to visit me for the sake of my little nut tree?
The King of Spain’s daughter
HISTORY: Much beloved as an insult by Captain Haddock in the Tintin comic book series, the bashi-bazouks were irregular forces notorious for being violently brutal and undisciplined, serving which empire in the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries?
Ottoman
GEOGRAPHY: If an isobar is a line on a map which connects points of equal pressure, and an isotherm connects points of equal temperature, what is shown by an isobath?
Water Depth
TRAVEL: Mitsuko Tottori was named as the first woman to lead Japan Airlines when she was named President and Chief Executive Officer in April 2024. In what capacity did she join the company in 1985?
Flight Attendant
ENGLAND: Which area of heathland, oak woodlands, ancient parklands and agricultural land in Somerset was designated England’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1956?
Quantock Hills
FILM: Which first name is shared by Tommy’s punk cousin played by Paul Nicholas in the 1975 film, the actor who played Wyatt Earp in the 1994 film, and the title character of a Lionel Shriver novel filmed starring Tilda Swinton in 2011?
Kevin
TELEVISION: Sharing its name with a type of savoury roly-poly pudding, which 1970s animated children’s television programme won a BAFTA in 2015 when revived in a version narrated by Michael Palin?
The Clangers
FOOTBALL: Which team is missing from this list: Alloa, Annan, Charlton, Dumbarton, Forfar, Wigan?
Oldham (these are the English and Scottish league clubs which are all “Athletics”)
In a standard English Scrabble set, which is the only letter which is worth 2 points and has 3 tiles?
G
What is A4 paper dimensions in mm?
210x297
Wives of Frank Sinatra going back in order
Barbara Sinatra, Mia Farrow, Ava Gardner, Nancy Barbato.
Three books in the Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy
Men at Arms
Officers and Gentlemen
Unconditional Surrender
Which Spanish artist had a pet Dachshund called Lump?
Pablo Picasso
What language links song titles by Debbie Harry and Girls Aloud?
French
(French Kissin’ in the USA, Can’t Speak French)
In 1990, Graham Gooch scored a record 333 runs against India, at which England cricket ground?
Lord’s
Which English romantic artist painted The Rooftops of Venice from the Hotel Europa at Sunrise in 1840?
JMW Turner
What home furnishing can go before viper, beetle, python, and moth?
Carpet
In World Cup competitions, how many minutes long is a netball match?
60 minutes
On December 2nd 1968, which American psychedelic rock band staged a rooftop performance on top of the Schuyler hotel in New York, 7 weeks before The Beatles rooftop concert in London?
Jefferson Airplane
Which vegetable is used to make a Crème Ninon soup?
Pea
Which Irish romance novelist wrote Light a Penny Candle and Tara Road?
Maeve Binchy
Kevin Whately played GP Jack Kerruish in which ITV medical drama series?
Peak Practice
Calamine is an old term for the ore of which metallic element?
Zinc
The Ponte Pietra in Verona, built in 100 BC, crosses which Italian river?
Adige
“Swiss Blue” and “Mystic” are forms of which hard gemstone?
Topaz
Which poem by Sylvia Plath begins “I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions”?
Mirror
What form of transport is the setting for the 2022 comedy film Triangle of Sadness?
Luxury Yacht
Megrim, a flatfish typically cooked in meunière sauce, is more commonly known by what name?
Cornish Sole
Which Californian racecourse stages the Shoemaker Mile Stakes every year?
Santa Anita Park
Which Indian state shares borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar? Capital is Aizawl.
Mizoram
Which Ella Henderson song shares its title with an Agatha Christie play and a UK TV channel?
Alibi
What word links a short story by Oscar Wilde, a chili pepper with about 1 million Scoville heat units, and a manga created by Masamune Shirow?
Ghost
(The Canterville Ghost, ghost pepper, Ghost in the Shell)
Northern Irish motorcyclist from Ballymoney, County Antrim, who was noted for his performances at the Isle of Man TT. In 2015, he was voted Northern Ireland’s greatest-ever sports star.
Joey Dunlop
The distinctive spire of which European city’s stock exchange was destroyed by a fire in April 2024?
Copenhagen
In 1898, Spain declared war after rejecting the ultimatum issued by the United States to withdraw from which island?
Cuba
William Worth Belknap was the first cabinet secretary in US history to be impeached in 1876 for his role in the trader post scandal. He was holding what position during the term of Ulysses S. Grant?
Secretary of War
The zoology term avifauna refers to what creatures in a particular region, habitat, or geological period?
Birds
Known for her work in horror films, which actress played Nancy Thompson in the 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street?
Heather Langenkamp
The red dwarf known as Barnard’s Star is located in which constellation?
Ophiuchus
What do you call the receptive tip of a carpel in the gynoecium of a flower?
Stigma
What two parts of flower make up the male part Stamen?
Anther (makes pollen) supported by Filament
What three main female parts of flower make up the PISTIL?
OVARY (at bottom) supporting a STYLE which on top is the STIGMA (where pollen germinates)
Designated a World Heritage Site in 1979, the Naqsh-e Jahan Square is located at the centre of what Middle Eastern city?
Isfahan
First issued in July 1959, Femina is the oldest women’s English magazine in which Asian country?
India
The logo of what Chicago-based food conglomerate features an image of writer William Penn?
Quaker Oats
According to the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV), which country is the world’s largest wine producer as of 2023?
France
Which organisation will be renamed in 2025 to make young women feel more welcome?
Boy Scouts of America
Which Australian tennis player defeated Serena Williams in the third round of the 2022 US Open, which was the latter’s final professional match?
Ajla Tomljanovic
Developed by Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone, players of what 2016 video game take the role of a character who inherits their deceased grandfather’s dilapidated farm?
Stardew Valley
Jazz musician Dave Brubeck is known for playing what musical instrument?
Piano
Currently housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the 17th-century painting The Fall of Phaeton depicts Zeus hurling thunderbolts to stop Phaeton’s chariot. It is a work by which Flemish Baroque artist?
Peter Paul Rubens
The emir of which Middle Eastern country dissolved his country’s legislature and suspended several provisions to his country’s constitution for four years in May 2024?
Kuwait
What vegetable is the main ingredient of the Chinese salad known as pai huang gua?
Cucumber
“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,” are the first lines of what poem by John Keats?
Ode to a Nightingale
The monks of which school of Jainism follow a practice of complete nudity to symbolize their detachment from material possessions and worldly attachments?
Digambara
The capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, what is the most populous city on the Volga River?
Kazan
What is the Yiddish term for the small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations that existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust?
Shtetl
Lando Norris won his first Formula One Grand Prix in Miami in May 2024. He currently plays for what team?
McLaren
Royal Navy officer Arthur Phillip was the first governor of what Australian state?
New South Wales
What is the title of the revered Mahayana Buddhist scripture that is the first known creative work with an explicit public domain dedication, stating that it was created “for universal free distribution”?
Diamond Sutra
Nicknamed “The Warrior”, who won the 2024 World Snooker Championship?
Kyren Wilson
Which actor portrayed George Cooper, Sr. on the CBS sitcom Young Sheldon (2017-24)?
Lance Barber
Bauerfield International Airport is the largest airport in what Pacific island country?
Port Vila, Vanuatu
Named after a French physicist, what do you call the temperature above which certain materials lose their permanent magnetic properties, which can be replaced by induced magnetism?
Curie Temperature
Which former leader of the Liberal Parry was MP for Orkney and Shetland fiom 1950 to 1983
Jo Grimond
Wallace and Gromit five films **ONLY CONNECT&&
A Grand Day Out
The Wrong Trousers
A Close Shave
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
A Matter of Loaf and Death
In the 1950s ospreys returned to breed in Scotland for the first time in about 40 years. Near which loch did this take place? It later
became an RSPB reserve.
Loch GARTEN
What was the sumame of the Times correspondent who became famous for his
reports from the crimean war? He shares his name with a London Square.
William Howard RUSSELL
who had a number one hit in 1961 with Johnny, Remember Me
John Leyton and the Outlaws
In the children’s books by Kathleen Hale what colour was a cat called Orlando
Marmalade
Name the small member of the heron famiiy with an all-white plumage that first bred in Engiand in 1996 but has since expanded its range considerably. It is now seen all year round at Leighton Moss RSPB reserve.
Little Egret
Name the ship on James Cook’s first voyage, from 1768 to 1771
Endeavour
Four ships that James Cook commanded over career ONLY CONNECT
HMS Endeavour
HMS Adventure
HMS Discovery
HMS Resolution
Name the British explorer who led the first overland crossing
of Antarctica in 1957-58
Vivian Fuchs
In 1964 what was the first UK number 1 single for the Rolling Stones?
It’s All Over Now
Marty Robbins, Guy Mitchell and Tommy Steele all released their version of the same song in 1956. Which song
Singing the Blues
The theme music for the 1949 film The Third Man was played on which instrument?
Zither (by Anton Karas)
I Can’t Stop Loving You was this singer’s only UK number 1, in July 1962. Name the singer.
Ray Charles
